The snag was that the screenplays had to be written at the rate of one every week, for the next half year. A single writer, Hugh pointed out, couldn’t undertake such a work load . . . Would I like to join him as soon as I had handed in my uniform?
At the end of 1960, I was all set to emerge from National Service and resume my career in research at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, with the general idea of examining what is these days called “Artificial Intelligence.”
BUT . . .
. . . . . Six weeks before being demobilised, I got a phone call from my younger brother Hugh.
He had been asked to write 26 half-hour TV episodes for a new children’s adventure series. It was going to be made using puppets, and was to be called “SUPERCAR”.
So, together, we made Lew Grade his first overseas million pounds, after doing which we got fired in order to save him money.
